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"You Don't Need To Be a Weatherman..." (Lyrics to Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues')
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Posted on 07/01/2008 9:26:41 AM PDT by ETL

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1 posted on 07/01/2008 9:26:41 AM PDT by ETL
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Nostradamus!! Dylan was a prophet! Or...everybody who was around at the time knows this was about dope.


2 posted on 07/01/2008 9:34:00 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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“”Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot”?


3 posted on 07/01/2008 9:36:14 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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I was in college 1969-1973 and my cousin who is just a bit older than me told me all about the SDS. Now my mother, an Oklahoma Democrat, thinks that cousin is a wierdo. Even my mother has been fooled by the liberal democrat party. When you try to tell her about the Weathermen and SDS and liberals taking over her party she thinks the messenger is nuts. She won’t believe it. Well, I lived it, and it is true, they took over the Democrat party. It is sick and sad.


4 posted on 07/01/2008 9:36:22 AM PDT by buffyt (Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y 2 K !!!!!!!!!!! FOLLOW THE $$MONEY$$)
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To: ETL

He disliked women wearing eyeliner.


5 posted on 07/01/2008 9:39:05 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: ETL
I report, you decide.

I have decided that this is my nominee for "Lamest Post of the Year"

6 posted on 07/01/2008 9:39:23 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on (to be determined))
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"liberals"?

Please refer her to my home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

7 posted on 07/01/2008 9:40:15 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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What about the line,”The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handle”?


8 posted on 07/01/2008 9:40:47 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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My guess is that he was referring to white women putting on a “black pose”to be more authentic.
Kind of similiar to the line in Like a Rolling Stone that goes,”You used to be so amused,by Napoleon in rags and the language that he used,go to him now,you can’t refuse,when you ain’t got nothing,you got nothing to lose”
To me,an obvious reference to the white liberal guilt tendencies of the time.


9 posted on 07/01/2008 9:44:21 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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I thought Maggie owned a farm...


10 posted on 07/01/2008 9:45:37 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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You’re probably right. But with the situation at the time and many other artists writing alarmingly anti-American lyrics, it certainly wasn’t out of the realm of possibility. Never mind.


11 posted on 07/01/2008 9:45:37 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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Sometimes these work and sometimes they don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

12 posted on 07/01/2008 9:49:16 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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What about the line, "The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handle"?

Have no idea. Does it have something to do with today's high gas prices? You mean he knew that ahead of time too! :)

13 posted on 07/01/2008 9:49:49 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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Nostradamus!! Dylan was a prophet!

I wasn't claiming he was a fortune teller predicting the future, but rather that he might have been in with the young revolutionaries. There are lots of artists and entertainers today who are still calling for revolution. Maybe he thought he cleverly coded the message and that law enforcement would be too dumb to figure it out.

14 posted on 07/01/2008 10:02:01 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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I think Dylan was thinking more in terms of”monkey wrenching”along the lines of the Earth First clique.


15 posted on 07/01/2008 10:05:47 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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There is a major difference between now and then. Now, the American people will fight back. These revolutionaries had a pass during the 70’s. They’ll try, especially if Obama loses.


16 posted on 07/01/2008 10:09:56 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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I wouldn't put too much credit to it. The Left celebrated Dylan but found he couldn't be used.

But that isn't the first time he's been accused of clairvoyance. He did actually begin performing A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall some time before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Creeped a lot of people out.

There are some people who don't like his voice - the Guardian once called it a "catarrhal death rattle." I sense a certain negativity there...

17 posted on 07/01/2008 10:16:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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There is a major difference between now and then. Now, the American people will fight back.

Are you kidding? The state of the country is much worse today. There are more wussies around than ever before -a direct result of "liberal incrementalism".

18 posted on 07/01/2008 10:16:52 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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Maybe some are wimpier, but not everybody. And those are the ones who will not back down to these cretins.


19 posted on 07/01/2008 10:24:16 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Billthedrill
I actually have one of his CDs, but only care for a handful of songs. Yes, his voice on some tunes can curl the varnish off a coffee table.

In his song about boxer 'Hurricane Carter', he has a line: "and to the white folks, he was just a revolutionary bum". I suspect Carter, like many black (and white) celebs today, had ties to some revolutionary orgs.

20 posted on 07/01/2008 10:25:08 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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